Luis Gutiérrez actually said...
$25 billion as ransom for Dreamers, with cuts to legal immigration and increases to deportations doesn't pass the laugh test. It would be far cheaper to erect a 50-foot concrete statue of a middle finger and point it towards Latin America because both a wall and the statue would be equally offensive and equally ineffective, and both would express Trump's deeply held suspicion of Latinos.
Context
Congressman Gutierrez criticizes the proposed immigration deal as offensive and ineffective.
01/24/2018